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Most people wa telling their 1rou are not even into FREN< Phone 531 CROWN All Ki We also MW AND J O} hulic, anu noary nead, still straightf as ah arrow. was the same H. J. Mob- ! erly who had gazed over the palisadesf at the fort 68 years before. He is: now 87. The Edmonton nevrsp_aper `that interviewed this pioneer stated? that he still earzfied his years like a` boy. __LAi _ ,; /\-1 --n -- -- i It is the gr and unsu Asia 11 ML white in Pkt. 25c. 3: DE LU SWEET Th sump] extra we :1.r :1 -'vc`r_\ :1 nd . or th1 5 .... .4, ;n uuauu a pay ractor. 1 Nearly a year ago now, a Patri-f arch of the West passedthrough thei capitol of Alberta, and its 80,000 po-l pulation. He had `the distinction of} being the earliiest living mangto sec] Edmonton. e had established the! old trading post of Fort McMurray in 1878. This Patriarch of giant sta- ' ture, and hoary head still strai ht i ' A` L " arrow, was Hm cnrnn I1 `I I A IA 11121115 Eiim WE_j Thu oul . ades of` Fort Edmonton. That was in ` the year 1854. Edmonton was not _count)_-_V_ pioneer" who gazediment Of one-pounder cannons and gineer, Hudson's Bay Factor (Sixth Installment)` fable courses from Fort _McMurray A white man, over six feet jnqthrough to Fort Smith. There he height, straight as an arrow, gal-hedltook soundings of the channels and in the habiliments of a pioneer front- ghis m8PS~We_1`e late!` used by the first iersmari' stood gazing over the pa1is.'Steam.erS On the northern Waterways. ` To this day W. T. Livoch, Edmonton, retains-the brass field `piece old Fort . the promising capitol of a ourishing f Edmntn b03t9d t`P1`0te0t the Pale- 5 province them It was not even. mface from the redskin of the Black- 4 town . not even 3 vi11age_ Nothing but feet tribe. Once there were imposing a fort on the height of 13nd, beyond apickets encircling the palisade 30 feet which there was a vast unknownjin heightrblock-houses with an `arma- was H. `J. Moberly, of Barrie, en-'int'10ckVmuSketS- _T_he only building within nine milesf ' o Nnl-`Ir at uinn... .---A ----- "` ' ' H. 'J.~ Moberly, Surveyor and Hudson's Bay F actoi, Oldest Living White Man _Who Saw Edmonton Site, is Traced V _ Over His Early Trails West Seventy Years Ago Cleaner, Presser and Dyer I09 DUNLOPST. PP B*`~`a ;`%'h PHONEZZ9 I AM A PRACTICAL TAILOR AND READY To A111-:ND T9 REPAIRS on ALL Cl..0'IjHES ' Goods called for and delivered. PRICES -REASONAB LE I have the only'dr3A'-cleaningplant within 'ydur reach '- '-outside the city`. ` ~ Installment) ' AA . A,;,M4LcoMsoN Iii: -I-runny` . .._..._ FIRTH :> .'rb\i?ivm.Ac?rv-T" surrs $1.75 *1} RAILWAYS _-.. _..-v-., !lvaUlA vu UIAC Didi!- Uhliaunted in his resolve to locate" his brother,` the hardy trail-breaker left Edmonton -alone on October 10, 1861, takihg two mares and a stall- ion as pack horses. He described how he rode one mare while the stall- I. _ _Starts to li`ind Brother I \ Factor Moberly came out from Jasper House in 1861, and at Edmon- ton expressed his intention of start- ing out for Tete Jaune Cache, (Mount Robson), to try to find his brother. Officers of the H. B. company tried to dissuade him from this perilous trip alone , almost the beginning of winter. He was told it was suicidal herwould surly perish on the trail. ` 'I'T....1.. .-_L- J 5! UCGESS`:'. I .._-v "V... vauuu uu DIIU war-patn. 1n! - `warm weather barter was carried on P1 with the indians through a small por- - ] tal window of the fort stockade, with 3 a loaded musket at hand. Factor . 1- Moberly reached Rocky Mountain IAfHo`us`e, at the junction of the Clear- -, water and Saskatchewan, that winter` I,with forty H.B. aides and servants, jten meat hunters and a full train of !%pack ponies laden with merchandise - to exchange for fur from the Indians; j The following spring` he went to Jasp- . ier House in the Yellow Head Park. ' V-Te c-losedthe foothills fort in the fall. _It was isolated, two hundred miles .from Edmonton, the nearest link in 1 the frontier chain. There was danger .of running out of winter provisions and an uprising which might result in a massacre. I , , -__ _-......-.vv-4. ' I .. The within miles -.`of_Fort Edmonton in 1854 was the 3 Catholic Mission at Lac `St. Anne, a -}spiritual rendezvous for the various tribes. The venerable Factor related ajfeelingly of the trials of these mis- zfsionaries. particulary of Father La- ' l combe as afriend to all, as well as a - priest. The missionaries were invar- :,iably the first white men on the front- lie:-"area of Canada and were implicit- . sfly trusted` by the Indians. The In 1 jdians childlike faith was often ruth-" ilessly abused by white traders,.whose , _:mercenary desires werefkeener than I ` theirlconsciences, Mr. Moberly relat-E: ted. ' 1 Shows Barter Methods 41 Dunlop St. .,.. uanv vnuv _uu1.uuc1:u rauroaa. ' His westward trip from the Soo was started in June across Lake Su- perior, Pigeon river. chain of Lakes, Rainy Lake. -Rainy River, Lake of the Woods, Winnipeg river and Lake - ;Winnipeg to the northern shore and to Norway House. Indians UsedANo Compass This canoe voyage of A 800 miles was made in thirteen days, a record for the trip.` Four canoes left the S00 together, two carrying Sir George Simpson's party and two that `of Judge Johnson, the first judge -v..u-.1. Mapped Extensive Courses These included Rocky Mountain He is next seen. at the northern H0059. Jasper Hehse Peftege Letpost of Lac La Biche, taking charge Loche. Lowe!` Peace RiVe!` (h0W F0 `at Jasper House. Jasper House was 'Vel_`mih0h) Tete Jehhe Cache: then one of the best `fur-gathering (MOV-mt R0580 Post.) F 01`t Sh Jam` centers in the west. The boat route 95. 3- `C-.. FY3581` Lake-P05`? ehd FOP`? ,` had. been interrupted. The ` boats MCMU!`!'3.V- AS 8!! e!18'm.eeI` he map-[were destroyed. iWaiving aside the ped and constructed the Fitzgerald-yadyise `of the H_B_ Chief, Mobey Smith P0!`t3ge in '73-74~ That meh'itook a pack train and garrison, cut talkedhf highwla-V '35 theh 3 Ihdiah j a trail direct west from Edmonton ) . Q and might in/ trail hhewh *0 hut fehf White me-Ethrough the wilderness to Jasper He eehsthueted the 14 ""19 canoe P1";House.. Here was an instance of the tagev 110 Connect the Water eeuhsee eh" courage and. initiative of the pioneer. ` either end of the rapids for traffic Going. by Way of Lac st_ Anne? and ( *0 *he.h1'th heYhd- _' _ _ after herculaneous efforts his party Factor Moberly has the d1st1nct1on!.mt its trail through 200 mes of Of heihg the first t0 map the heVi8"" forest wildernesss in three months -3 and re-established the fort. . V ` v sAL6o5IFo He_ had previously helped mi sur- vey xivork from Barrie to Collingwood on the old, Northern railroad. I` rm. .....;.;...-...v Lush -v 1.-...- nun: uu. ueurge olmpson Of; 1 the Hudson s Bay company, at Mon-'; - treal. Sir George was a friend of! - his father s in England and his uncle : in Russia had done Sir George _a- . good turn. He was appointed to I Saskatchewan with $500 in advance. T In his anxiety to begin his adventures | ` young Moberly started out on the long overland winter journey from Toronto to the Soo. In conversation - a year ago, he vividly recalled leav- ing Toronto that fall, in 1853, by the old stage coach. A large part of that journey from Toronto to the Soo was made on snowshoes. The Soo was a mixed white and Indian village. 1:1,. 1.'...1 .._----2,, - - - - `.-- v-av IJAUIAILGT" . Wheirixi i7entures Began - Moberly was deeply impressed? with the vivid accounts of western` `life and its adventure. He commun- icated with Sir George Simpson of,` th HlIdnh E R917 nnvnnnu-..- -1. IA -.. - .... \llIl us u.-,xua.uu:u LWO years. Returning to Canada he was told. by Col. Jarvis in Toronto. a former mayor, of the woolly frontier life in. far Canadian Northwest. Col Jarvis hadxbeenia member of a party in search of Sir John Franklin in 1851- '52 and gave Moberly a graphic'ac- count of a lifebon the plains.-- 1171.... iv - '-* vu aausnullu In hisvyoung days-he had started _ on a trip to England for study._ At Boston he met with an old sea cap- tain with whom he voyaged to Eng- land. In the Old Land he soon tired of academic study and arranged with an East India company to take a clerkship in a distant colony. At the company s docks he again fell in with his old friend the sea captain, who invited him to first take a trip to South America and then to Russia. He hasn't seen that East India trip yet. But later `found himself in St.` Petersburg`, Russia. He had an uncle there, manager for Lloyds, with whom he remained two years. Rafllvninn 4-A (".........l.. L- -~-A - ' -... . \rL \; U1. u JJullVCg'd_.H) . In 1886 Mr. Moberly applied for '_.a leave of absence to visit relatives in England. In England he became apprehensive of the.condition of his heart and consulted Sir Andrew Clarke in London. a specialist, relat- ive to smoking. He was told hewas hearty enough for at least thirty years and was congratulated for his wonderful physical. development. which he had acquired from a life in the wilds. So he` stuck to his pipe. He has no brief for a long life, hav- ing disregarded _most of the so-called prescriptions for the long route him- self, he has said. I I ......-.J Juauuxcu uuc cuuuuence Ene ELB. people had placed in him. `He made it a profitable, venture. After some years he was selected as Factor `at lower Peace River Post (Fort Verv- lmilion). At phat time Dr. McKay was. Factor in charge at upper Peace River (Fort Dunvegan). . Th Mun 'I'..L--_I-_ -,, 1- 1 n l I av; VAAU 11.. 1). people. 1 Harry started for a three-year as- sigment in the dead of winter. He 5' held the Fraser Lake fort till 1864 and decided to quit and go trapping and prospecting on his own account it along the North British_ Columbian and Alberta waterways. Had Company on Quest The intrepid piuneer took two`com- panions along on hisxquest for gold I 5 and furs." They..were' Ed. Carey and ` 9 Wm; Cust, the latter an old Ca1ifor- ` 1 nia `forty-niner. _ For about six years . b they prospected the Cariboo, Findlay, ' Peace, and other rivers. They struck , gold deposits at various places, but ` prospects were uncertain with expen- ` ses high. V Flour cost them $1.25 for a ' 100-lb. sack. In 1870 Moberlyagain l 7 returned` to the H. B. people. This 1 5 time he was called upon to perform f `l a task that only the tried might vent- 11` ure, the establishing of'a new post. ./ Established Fort McMurray d It was then, in 1878, that he t` brought into being Fort McMurray, , where the thriving town on the north- ern reaches of the Athabasca now stands. This was distinctly away from beaten paths, 290 miles north S( of Edmonton, and called for a man 9` of courage, keen business insight and H; outstanding` ability. Moberly subse- quently justified the confidence the bk HR `nan:-uln 1...A ..1...-A-I =- -4=-~ " cc ionidrove the other on ahead of him.` He packed that 220' miles to Jasper House in safety, andthere secured an Iroquois Indian boy as company through to FortvGeorge_. Coming to the Mount `Robson post he found it closed, so crossed the Fraser river. There the two builta dugout canoe and abandoned the horses which later returned` to Jasper House. With their provisions the two paddled to Fort George where he learned his brother was at Stuart Lake post, Fort /' Sto James. R'GnI.I'| Q91 ----------~` -"` Pone 447w Goes Wt'o England And this story, too. but scarcely] scratches the tale of Mr. Mober1y s experience as engineer and pioneerL\ It may serve to convey an idea of the` situation in that little known country in his days of explorations; that is all that is intended. LI T mI'..L....w-- _.- mu. to an uuab is 1115811080. H. J. Moberly now resides quiet place called Duck Lake, ...,.. vull uc cabuHaLe(l. 1\ `I l- -.---- -- ` v,.,_, ---..... ...... vval. nus mane; flthat name a monument to Alberta; ; overseas men. Edmonton s Possibilities I All that Edmonton country had- been widely advertised in Mr. Mober- I ly s days as an inhabitable country,` fit only for the Indian and trapper. V 4 1 Unlike some other western cities, Mr`. Moberly thinks Edmonton's boom days are yet to come. With the 2000 miles of resources to the Arctic hardly scratched, as! yet, he says there is no gauge by}; which the ultimate growth of Edmon- ' k` 1. ton can be estimated. Ana a.L:- -4, - 5 ,,.._-_, ...._,u u: 4:4uulUBUXl- |] 1; To visualize,Edmonton in 54 one` must think of the five bands of? 3 Blackfeet Indians, including the3 ; Pagans. The Bloods, Crows and S_ar-g 1 cees were then masters of the plains; _~ in that region. The Cree tribe was, camped along the river flats in 350: . tents, under the Chieftains Maski~ ; piton `and La Potac. Mr. Moberlyi . maintains that the Sarcees are but} ; a division of the Beaver Indians of ,3 v, Peace River district. It was common history at Fort Edmonton that about; 160 years previous there had been a division of the Beavers at Little Red: River, near Fort Vermilion, when,= after a gambling quarre1,tone of the: chiefs deserted the Beavers and join-f ed with the Blackfeet, who gave them , the name Sarcees. A training camp. near Calgary since the war has made; that Alberta? 1 4 .--v-av!-av uuuuulby." On reaching Norway House, Mob- erly awaited the arrival of the Sas- katchewan Brigade, then on its way back from York factory, near Fort'_ Nelson, -Hudson's Bay. After the; long canoe trip the Brigade, includ-I ing Moberly, arrived in Fort Edmon- ton late in October. } Early Days in Edmonton. '1`- ..:...--1:- H ` vi wlllatlvill U.Llllb CGFUUT. . i I I The pioneer may yet see that once. barren fort the gateway to the great- est oil fields in the world. AH.arry" Mobex'I_v s service with the `H. 13.; people is a record complete of Hud-' son s Bay company history from 1854 to 1892. At some posts he was Fact- f or for` three year periods and guard-`- ian of the isolated and dangerous; forts. . . V I ; _ _ - -._v...,v.. n; acuu o ' . Indian canoe men had no use for! a compass. They appeared to in-3 stinctively know /their direction, but! may have used astronomical bearings! in their own crude way. They were] guides in the real sense of the word! and could paddle sixty to seventy miles a day without difficulty. On rnonln-I-um KY`----~- ' ' ._ _._ v--v \Allu'I?\rlIl\J4lI UVUI We lperior was obtained'by use of a com- pass, Mr. Moberly said: `l'f...`I:_.. V ` *"'T Ito ho1Ei3court at Fort Garry. When; asked _if\ thedirection over Lake Su-; .nerior wan nk+..:.....:.L.- ---- J ` No.50 __._-.-`---, T0 P0lNT'S : WEST-A1;nual Homesekers Exursions . . . ' at considerably lower rates. FQR FULL INFORMATION, SEE = 4 Ask to_ hedr these new selections e played on this _new model _ `vs own] 06 C`, Two New Fox Trot: by All Star I '13: II-1-A--- " ' "' This new model No. 50 is an exceptionally cpnvenient portable talking-machine, as easy to carry as a travelling bag. It is at the same time a perfect musical - . wn `V51-ll 1170 New Fox Trio and Their Orchestra on His Mster's Voice-Victor Record No. 13353. 10-inch, 85. ` . . $ ung by Charles Harrison on His Master : Voice-Victor Record'No. 18862. er Sag. I Mr. and `Mrs. Moberly have four `daughters and two sons living apd __ .,.,.vu5 nucua llCH.l'LS 3.110 Drawn In he Canadian wilderness. For such men and such times we of today share results we sometimes fail to apprec- iate. .....y -411 uu uuc UUVCl'S lie 1nSCrlp' tion. Thirty years faithfulness with the H. B. Co. A Royal purple rib-j bon on a bar of gold indicates the other seven years. He was,of course, a brother of Frank Moberly, a sketch? of whose surveying career is here in- terrupted to introduce his brother in a chapter ofhis career. .4 | 1 rm... .: ......... -- i I ..........mau, wucre, wxm M.!`S. Mober-,' ly, he undoubtedly lives over in quiet chats those days that tried strong men's hearts and brawn in I ha f`.nnoA:..... ...:1..1....._-_ H - . ATANY . % His Master s V0 Ice? dealers Berliner Gram- AD-RHYMES This is the SPACE That carried the AD That gained the REP That made the SALES That yielded the-PROFIT S That built the BUSINESS Thiit" '~3ZE1'e7'Bu"i1E` . 10-inch 85. 1-0-phovne 00., Limited Montreal ' ' J- With a Smile _v-vvv 8::':s`a='..`.:**"a'%} RAILWA` ,A . DAIL_Y TRAN`SCONT:INEN.i lV`AL_ SERVICE. _.-_ . urvnll\Q\t\&D The explorations of Frank Mober- ,ly will be resumed in the next issue, :starting over the tangled Lake Su- perior route for the C.P.R. 3 one son deceased. The two surviving sons are South African war veterans and one, Walter,,also servedin the European war ix` France where he was gassed and wounded. [CT (To be ontinued) $70.00 79 Bayfield St BARRIE GI Prompt service -GRANITE "J ' Gateway {to on Fields Now Retired from the Hudson's Bay; company, he was revisiting early scenes in the wilds. He had passed 37 yeafrs with the fort builders of the plains, `At his retirement from the; H. B. Co's service he was given 5` gold medal, bearing his name on one side and on the obverse the inscrip- tion. Thirtv Unsure ;.:+1...1........ .-..-u. [I I. 5] ti I (1 t 2 'V ._V